Tickets for the second leg of GRAMMY Award-winning artist Darius Rucker’s 2014 True Believers Tour go on sale this week. Eli Young Band, Corey Smith and Joel Crouse will be joining Rucker, who just earned his third career GRAMMY award and first as a country artist for Best Country Solo Performance on the No. 1 smash hit “Wagon Wheel.” The Plain Dealer elected Rucker’s win as one of the most compelling overlooked storylines of the night, stating, “It’s been 20 years since Hootie released Cracked Rear View and Rucker is still going strong.”
Rucker recently received three Academy of Country Music Awards nominations including Single Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year for “Wagon Wheel” featuring Lady Antebellum. The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 6 at 8:00PM ET/PT on CBS.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls Rucker’s live show “a killer set,” and The Morning Call hails him as “the best male performer in country music right now.” The first leg of the tour, featuring Eli Young Band and David Nail, kicked off Jan. 29 and runs through March 9, 2014. The second leg will begin March 27 and run through August.
A complete list of dates and venues for the 2014 True Believers Tour are as follows:
Jan. 29 | Champaign, Ill. | State Farm Center †
Jan. 30 | Ft. Wayne, Ind. | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum †
Jan. 31 | Ypsilanti, Mich. | The Convocation Center †
Feb. 13 | Hershey, Pa. | Giant Center †
Feb. 14 | Albany, N.Y. | Times Union Center †
Feb. 15 | Verona, N.Y. | Turning Stone Resort & Casino †
Feb. 20 | Charleston, S.C. | North Charleston Coliseum †
Feb. 21 | Columbia, S.C. | Colonial Life Arena †
Feb. 22 | Asheville, N.C. | US Cellular Center* ‡
Feb. 27 | Erie, Pa. | Erie Insurance Arena †
Feb. 28 | Youngstown, Ohio | Covelli Centre †
March 1 | Roanoke, Va. | Roanoke Civic Center †
March 7 | Enid, Okla. | Enid Event Center and Convention Hall †
March 8 | Salina, Kan. | Salina Bicentennial Center †
March 9 | Loveland, Colo. | Budweiser Events Center †
March 27 | Binghamton, N.Y. | Broome County Arena **
March 28 | Uncasville, Conn. | Mohegan Sun Arena **
March 29 | Portland, Maine | Cumberland Civic Center **
April 10 | Morgantown, W.Va. | West Virginia University ***
April 11 | Lewisburg, Pa.| Bucknell University ***
April 18 | Fayetteville, N. C. | Crown Center ***
April 19 | St. Augustine, Fla. | St. Augustine Amphitheatre ***
April 24 | Orlando, Fla. | UCF Arena ***
April 25 | Tallahassee, Fla. | Leon County Fair ***
April 26 | Orange Beach, Ala. | The Wharf ***
*Eli Young Band will not be performing on this date
**Featuring Joel Crouse
***Featuring Corey Smith
† With special guest David Nail
‡ With special guests David Nail and A Thousand Horses
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit DariusRucker.com.
